Law, Power, and Justice in Ancient Israel

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Using socio-anthropological theory and archaeological evidence, Knight argues that while the laws in the Hebrew Bible tend to reflect the interests of those in power, the majority of ancient Israelites--located in villages--developed their own unwritten customary laws to regulate behavior and resolve legal conflicts in their own communities. This book includes numerous examples from village, city, and cult. --from publisher descriptionchAPter 5 Law in the Villages India lives in her 700, 000 villagesaobscure, tiny,
out-of-the-way villages, where the population in some cases ... Jerusalem Biblical
Studies, 7 (Jerusalem: Simor, 1996); Victor H. Matthews and Don C. Benjamin,
Social World ofAncient Israel, ... For comparable recent portrayals of social life in
Mesopotamia, see Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejat, Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
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Law, Power, and Justice in Ancient Israel

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Douglas A. Knight

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Westminster John Knox Press - 2011

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